Synonym(s)
lobular panniculitis; Panniculitis lobar
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Inflammation of the adipose lobules, usually accompanied by degeneration of the lipocytes (lipophages, oil cysts). A lobar panniculitis can occur suppuratively (often infectious genesis) or non-suppuratively (lymphocytic - e.g. in systemic sclerosis or lupus erythematosus).
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer